KitchenAid commercial-style stove with a blinking Start button
On a KitchenAid commercial-style stove, if the controls glow solid white but the Start button keeps blinking and the oven will not start, Start was usually pressed before the stove was ready for it.
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- Mode, not a failure
- No repair needed
- Source: KitchenAid
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What Blinking Start button
actually means.
On a KitchenAid commercial-style stove, if the controls glow solid white but the Start button keeps blinking and the oven will not start, Start was usually pressed before the stove was ready for it.
KitchenAid stove display
What to do when Blinking Start button shows on the stoveKind of codeMode, not a failure
Something the stove was switched into, often by accident, rather than something that broke: a control lock pressed while wiping the panel, a Sabbath setting, a showroom demo mode that lights the display and heats nothing, a reminder that a spot on the stovetop is still hot. No part is worn out, and the stove's own keys put it right.
Usually leads toNo repair
Turn the Mode knob to a different position.
Shows up asOven on My Stove Won't Heat Up
The burners on top work, but the oven underneath stays cold, heats only a little, or never reaches the temperature you set.
MakeKitchenAid
A Whirlpool Corporation brand whose stoves come in gas, electric and induction versions.
SourceKitchenAid product help: white blinking lights, commercial-style
KitchenAid commercial-style stoves with Mode and Temp knobs.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from KitchenAid's own guidance for Blinking Start button on its stoves. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Turn the Mode knob to a different position.
Turn the Temp knob back to Off.
Set mode and temperature again, wait for Start to flash, then press it; book a visit only if it still will not start.
Cleared?
The stove is working again and no part was needed. If the same letters come back while a burner or the oven is on, or the stove switches itself off again in the middle of dinner, book it as a new problem.
What not to do
A blinking Start button is not an error signal. Errors on these stoves blink amber, not white.
What you may
notice with it.
The stove problems Blinking Start button tends to arrive with. Answer these at the stove before anyone is booked.
All problems
Oven on My Stove Won't Heat Up
6 causes, cheapest first
No repair indicated
Nothing to repair.
Something the stove was switched into, often by accident, rather than something that broke: a control lock pressed while wiping the panel, a Sabbath setting, a showroom demo mode that lights the display and heats nothing, a reminder that a spot on the stovetop is still hot. No part is worn out, and the stove's own keys put it right.
KitchenAid
stoves.
A Whirlpool Corporation brand whose stoves come in gas, electric and induction versions.
KitchenAid stove repair
Gas stove
A stove with gas burners on top, whether its oven below runs on gas too or on electricity, fed by one gas line behind it and plugged into a wall outlet for the spark.
Electric stove
A stove that runs entirely on electricity through a heavy cord and a large outlet behind it, with coil burners that lift out or a smooth glass stovetop with elements under it.
Induction stove
A stove with a flat glass top that heats the pan itself through a magnetic field, run by touch keys and power boards, with an electric oven underneath.
In KitchenAid's own words
this usually means the "Start" button was pressed too soon (before it was flashing).
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. KitchenAid commercial-style stoves with Mode and Temp knobs.
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Questions
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Back to your everyday
Still showing Blinking Start button?
Book with the code written exactly as the stove shows it, the full model number, and whether you notice any smell of gas or hot wiring — when there is a code, that is where the diagnosis starts.